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d just stay

ide so they could take Ryan. I barely noticed her touch. Everything had been p

nother paramedic began shining lights in my eyes, c

shoulders. Around us, the students stood frozen, like the cold had locked them in place. The W

lur of cold and grief until som

t v

l, man. We still

k to me lik

eet away, being questioned so I sto

called after me but I didn't answer. I just

I reached them. She offered me a short, sym

s she was about to walk away.

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lfriend," I

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eplied, my v

before she raised a brow. "So y

ned. That caug

ion we need, miss. We'll get your b

e that, she

d. She didn't believe

ountain, not far from Loga

g my voice low. "The ones who

the officer called back

across his face. "I'm sorry," he wh

his going to be one of those cases where the people w

along and didn't hear

voice st

k at my face, and all th

he asked, her voi

ing to speak. My

. Ry

tears came freely as Sarah sat besi

her hand brushing over my back

se about the shooter. No n

th

didn't even say goodbye. Being human, he wasn't bound to any pack rules or territory lines which made t

t their doorstep hoping for answers only to be threatened with the cops for violating the restrainin

have just

e finally worked up the courage to flirt with me, or thos

coul

lse seemed to move on. Classes. Exams. Graduations. I was stuck in

how long it took, I would find Gabriel. Th

mmunity especially with how often our kind got blamed for things. He had this

. I couldn't sit behind a bench or desk waiting for

A detective, actually-much to my parents' d

ion. And that mi

br

years weren't him. I always knew. Something in m

as still out t

wasn't